Unable to Copy the Code about how2 HOT 18 CLOSED

Can you provide the exact steps you take to reproduce it? Including the line you run, the SPACE navigation, and the output you try to copy.

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See when I search for it, the first answer that I get, I can select and copy stuff from inside

But when I press SPACE for more answers and get to an answer, there I cannot select the text or copy anything.

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@ahmadawais I think you pasted the same image twice.

Is this using ZSH? on which os?

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@danielkop Can you recheck the images, just refresh?

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Yes, I am using ZSH on Mac.

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Same problem here.
ZSH on Arch linux

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Good repo, Good issue
Same issue. I use bash in terminator in ubuntu

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This is an issue with blessed, or with the way it is configured to run here. If you'd try to run the example code in the link above, you'll see that the text is not selectable.

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^Any solution for that?

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@ahmadawais @smmoosavi @h-ayat it was {mouse:true}. Either you can mouse scroll, or you can copy-paste.

It's fixed in 1.0.9. Now you can't mouse scroll, but you can copy-paste.

Make sure you update with "npm install -g how2"

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Thanx for quick reply and fix.
I've updated how2 to the latest version.
Now mouse clicks and scroll does nothing,
And there's a bug in selecting multi-line text, because background boxes get selected too.

I've attached a snapshot from the bug:

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@h-ayat I wouldn't call it a bug, as this is the intended behaviour of selection in the terminal, which is why I believe that it could not be resolved for the current view.

A possible alternative is to modify the way blessed is used here, and display the content of that window in full width without borders.

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^Same problem here. Thanks for the update but one cannot copy more than one line.

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A lot of terminals have a column select (or block select) feature.
With Ubuntu try holding Ctrl+Alt before you select, or Alt+Cmd if you're in iTerm.

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@danyshaanan Thank you anyway.
@danielkop Very nice trick 👍 Actually solved many problems other than this !

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@h-ayat It also works in a lot of text editors and IDEs. Block selection changed my life 😀

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@danielkop such a nice trick! thanks, I'm putting it in the readme

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@danielkop Thanks for the tip, I never knew that.

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